import json
import urllib

def showsome(searchfor):
    query = urllib.urlencode({'q': searchfor})
    
    url = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&%s'%query
    search_response = urllib.urlopen(url)
    search_results = search_response.read()
    results = json.loads(search_results)
    data = results['responseData']
    ret =  data['cursor']['estimatedResultCount']
    
    return ret
   
val = showsome('google')
print val
